A plug for Madan Mohan’s book. You can buy the book from the notionpress store:https://notionpress.com/read/raga-2-rock As well as from Amazon: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B09WYSNBBZ Blurb: Ever wondered why millennials listen to old film songs from the ‘60s and the ‘70s? How did they get into the habit in the first place? Were there composers other than R D Burman operating […]
February 21, 2022
By Madan Mohan When I tried to write a tribute to Lata Mangeshkar after she passed away, the words wouldn’t come. Partly, it was simply because what could I write anyway that others wouldn’t have. What is there to say about self-evident brilliance? You may find Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony boring but you are not going […]
February 20, 2022
When AR Rahman’s soundtrack for Atrangi Re was released, the song that instantly wormed its way into my ears was Tumhe mohabbat hai. It wasn’t just the music or the longing in Arijit Singh’s expression. It was also Irshad Kamil’s word-weaving. The entire song has two “themes”. The first is the overarching theme: Dhanush’s sadness/heartache. […]
February 17, 2022
November 17, 2021
So this comes from a recent comment from a reader (as it keeps coming up) that in the 1970s, Tamils were under sway to Hindi film music until the arrival of Ilaiyaraaja brought them back to Tamil music. I have asked many people born in the 1950s and 60s about this — family and others. […]
October 27, 2021
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June 23, 2021
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June 4, 2021
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March 22, 2021
(by Madan Mohan) The day I signed up for the Film Companion Front Row discussion with A R Rahman, I formulated the question I wanted to ask him. When the discussion started, I was maybe the second guy to punch in my question in the chatbox. But the numbers were against me from the get […]
February 24, 2021
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February 2, 2021
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January 11, 2021
(by Jayram Sataluri) It was Sunday, April 17th 2011. I was at JP Stevens High School in Edison, New Jersey waiting outside the school.I did not have the exact money to pay for the ticket. But a family friend who I hadn’t seen in a decade understood my predicament and paid for it. I paid […]
September 30, 2020
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September 29, 2020
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September 28, 2020
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September 25, 2020
A journey through the great singer’s songs in Tamil cinema, by the two great composers who used him the most, and used him the best. How on earth do you write about SPB? How do you contain the vastness of his accomplishments, the vast pleasures he has brought us, in a couple of thousand words? […]
September 8, 2020
At a macro level, there’s literally nothing you can sense at a one-line level and say, “Wow, this is going to be huge.” But the beautiful “micro” touches make the movie. You don’t associate the word “benign” with Ram Gopal Varma. You associate it with someone like Sooraj Barjatya, whose Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! had […]
August 3, 2020
Over the years, our film music has become increasingly Western. But listening to the stunningly classical “Garaj Garaj”, you wonder: Is OTT poised to change the OST? Here’s the description for Bandish Bandits on the Amazon Prime Video site: “Radhe a singing prodigy from a classical background & Tamanna, a pop sensation on the rise […]
July 31, 2020
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